I am using the same default configuration as you are - with the addition of Wbar which is a light weight dock where I have my favorite and most used applications.

I've tried just about everything else there is and find that although the configuration I use now has less eye candy, it is extremely fast and stable, configurable to the way I work and still nice to look at without any major distractions.

Those are excellent points. I would try wbar but I remember a while back trying it and what I found was that there was no way to quit out of it. Is there a more recent update that I should look at to see if it will meet my needs?

JWM is well established as Puppy's default WM and I couldn't really argue with that (it's lightweight and very good), but if you want an alternative I think pekwm is worth looking at for its wider range of configuration options._________________Stone Pentium IV (2.4 GHz), 2 GB of RAM, 160 GB hard drive running Legacy OS2 LTS, Puppy Racy 5.51 Extended, Puppy 4.31 Workhorse, Puppy Precise 5.71 Large and Swift Linux 0.2.0.Last edited by Colonel Panic on Mon 13 May 2013, 15:54; edited 1 time in total

If you used plogout it'd be fairly easy to set up a new button and so on for convenient switching ~or~ xwin pekwm from the usual cli

No way to quit wbar? Surely you jest - zap it in htop (or do a 'killme' icon in wbar itself with an appropriate cmd). Same goes for the lighter yeahlaunch dropdown. Both are really convenient and basically universal for just about all wms, though. Update wbar? Up to you - I find 133 with the offset patch is all I really need or want (sometimes a config gui just gets in the way).

wm/des are various, my solution is to have a bunch and use whatever works best for the tasks at hand. Yep, jwm is great (do try the latest, btw ) but afaik there's no autoraise .. openbox has lots of nice features (but no one has done it for puppy with imlib2/icons-in-rootmenu yet ), blackbox, fluxbox 'way cool (e16 as well or even e17 if you like), miwm (fast and simple), ctwm, wmx the list goes on and on...

Yes. The one and only Puppy Lucid 5.2.8. Love it although I would like to love thew other pups out there but for some reason they don't seem to offer the functionality of 5.2.8. Maybe it's me or maybe I just haven't taken the time to fully discover the other pups out there. So many options....

- Menu pipe for portable linux applications (standalone binaries)
- - these binaries are outside the running OS, stored in a portable apps directory on my usb flash drive (incl sub-categories)
- - added programs (binaries) do appear immediately in the Openbox menu
- - clicking the menu entry executes the program
- - some of them need dependencies like java or python which is then loaded from SFS automatically by a pre-executed script

(of course it can also configured like Internet is desktop 11 and Variomenu-Group 2 !!!)

So, if working on the desktop for the Graphics applications (desktop and VM-Group: 9) and clicking the Internet icon in WBar will switch Openbox desktop to desktop 15, Variomenu-Group 15 and presenting only running programs of desktop 15 and pre-defined icon (application) selection on the desktop like Firefox, Connect etc.pp.

I am currently using the default Openfox/Rox/FBPanel that comes with this interesting distro.

What WM/DE do you prefer using?

I'm using Openbox/PCmanfm/Lxpanelx.
I prefer Rox and JWM, I just haven't got around to getting the file associations and menu set up for them (they aren't compliant enough with the freedesktop standards)..._________________DEATH TO SPREADSHEETS
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I have found the combination pekwm / rox / fbpanel to be the most satisfactory for my needs -- on any Puppy.

Actually, if you use a rox panel on one side of the screen, you do not need fbpanel.

pekwm is easier to fine-tune than openbox, IMO, because the pekwm configuration files are in straight text that you can modify in a text editor. Whereas openbox is written in xml, not txt, so you need to know this computer language to fine-tune openbox -- or use the specialized openbox editor.

I just installed pekwm on my Mac G4 PPC. How can I get it to work with rox and fbpanel like you suggested in your last post. I guess I would go to Synaptic Package Manager and install rox and fbpanel if they are in the repos , but I'm not sure what to do after I install them.

You mentioned that the pekwm config files are text based. How do I access them? Thanks for all the help!! Can't believe I am running this on an old PPC Mac.

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